Before entering the field of journalism, I completed a masters and a doctorate in ancient Greek literature at Oxford University. For a couple of years I taught full-time at King's College London and I co-authored a book about the Greek philosopher Plutarch, called The Philosopher's Banquet (Oxford University Press, 2011) .

I decided to become a journalist, got a scholarship to study cultural reporting and criticism at New York University and headed to New York. I returned to Europe in 2014 and am now based in Belgium.